The "New Age" (or Self-Help) Movement, is a broad-based amalgam of spiritual, social, and political elements with the common aim of transforming individuals and society through a diverse and non-biblical spiritual awareness. The New Age is a utopian vision, an era of harmony and progress with mother earth an nature. Comprising individuals, activist groups, businesses, professional groups, and spiritual leaders and followers, the movement brought feminist, ecological, spiritual, and human-potential concerns into the mainstream in the 1980s, creating a large market in the United States and other countries for books, magazines, audio and videotapes, workshops, retreats, and expositions on the subject, as well as for natural foods, crystals, and meditation and healing aids.

Often seen as resurgent paganism or Gnosticism, the modern movement has more recent roots in 19th-century spiritualism and in the 1960s counter culture, which rejected materialism in favor of Eastern mysticism and preferred direct spiritual experience to organized religion. Techniques for self-improvement and the idea that the individual is responsible for and capable of everything from self-healing to creating the world, have found applications in health care and counseling as well as in sports, the armed forces, and corporations and have provoked debate in religious and other circles.

Holistic thinking has influenced attitudes about medicine, the environment, the family, work, regional planning, and world peace, among others. Ideas frequently associated with the New Age movement include anthropomorphically teachings, inner transformation, reincarnation, extraterrestrial life, biofeedback, chanting, alchemy, yoga, transpersonal psychology, shamanism, martial arts, the occult, astrology, psychic healing, extrasensory perception, divination, astral travel, acupuncture, massage, tarot, Zen, mythology, and visualization.

It is therefore important that we note the History behind these diverse uprisings which are beginning to resurface on American soil. Because this Land allows freedom of religion, cults, Satanists, pagans, and other diverse movements have a free walk, a free speech and free growth in our society. Is this morally right? Not if your a follower of Christ. All these diverse practices are rooted in ancient practices which clearly defy the instruction of the written word of God (as defined in the OT Torah, and the NT Gospel and Epistles). Many of these followings are rooted in ancient Satanic ritualism. Sacrifices (animal, and in some deeper occultist channels "human sacrifice"), blood letting, dancing across or around the fire, lighting candles or incense in observance of the various Gods or spirits of the earth, emulations, sorcery, witchcraft and the like, are all defined in the word of God as "of the devil". Whether the followers of these groups proclaim they follow Satan or not, the word of God proclaims, if they image the any of the above practices, they indeed do follow him. Many who follow these groups may or may not understand or perceive their following as rebellion to God. But the Word of God clearly states the following:

Mt:12:30: He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

Lk:11:23: He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.

Make your own conclusion, for that passage is quoted by Jesus himself. In these studies we shall observe the roots of these practices, all in an attempt to open our eyes to the light of Christ. Only then can we and judge for ourselves whether these practices are of God, his will, his word, or of Satan, and the Carnal will of man. Satan is described as "the father of all lies and deception" in the Holy Bible. History has shown Satan to Mimic God, in an attempt to make himself a God to be worshiped through unknowing practices such as some of these. There will be Links listed below with Historical documentation. BE WARNED. I AM NOT THE EDITOR OF THESE PAGES. They are documentations created by various sources. These Studies are therefore linked to this site to bring awareness to the body of Christ, as to the clear rebellion against the commandments of God. The word of God proclaims the following concerning the practices and the followers of these practices:

1 John:4:1: Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Rev:16:14: For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

Since there are so many diverse practices being raised upon American and other worldwide soils, it is important that we recognize the signs of a false ministry or an occult practice, and do so according to the written word of God. Those who visit this page can evaluate for themselves whether the material they read promotes the type of following by which he or she would consider devoting time, practice, and faith to. Be very careful in dealing with faiths outside of the Church of Christ. For churches of the world do the things of the world, and SOMETIMES they involve turmoil, danger and the like, which in the beginning, may not be noticed by the new convert, but many who have traveled the depths (or deeper channels) of a number of these followings and have come out, have testified that time has often painted a different picture. Here are a few links that will give you pointers on how to recognize these followings:

How to tell if a Christian Ministry is cultic

Cult Watch

Roots of the New Age Movement

1 John:4:1: Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

If you practice the above passage of John 4:1 you will be furnished with the knowledge you need to make a wise and Godly decision. May the Lord quicken our hearts and minds to understand the truth, to understand the spirit behind that which has resurfaced in our modern society. For the evil and deceiving ways of the ancients have not passed away, they have only resurfaced with a new face, and a greater determination. The word of God lets us to know, this shall continue with fervency in the last days, and that great tribulation shall come against the followers of Christ for their stand in righteousness and the ways of God. And it shall continue until the return of the Lord himself.

SO IT IS WRITTEN, SO IT SHALL BECOME...

  

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